The MDs still have the remedies, but self-monitoring through medical apps is putting each of us in sync with our own bodies. And our own bodies can now guide doctors to curing what ails us, thanks to diagnostic genetic profiling, and to fixing us before we can get sick, with tools like CRISPR. Our panel discusses redefining health, medicine, and longevity, treatment vs. prevention, how we use our genetic profiles for future healthcare and treatments, and what the science of vaccine and disease prevention may look like in the future.

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The Future of Medicine

If you could ask curators about their strangest or most valued artifacts, what would they divulge? Join science correspondent and host of Ologies podcast, Alie Ward as she asks Museum research specialists about their collections and discovers details hidden in plain sight. Each month features a different expert to uncover the big mysteries, strange oddities, and untold stories from NHM.

Secrets from the Vault with Alie Ward and Allison Schultz

The Natural History Museums of Los Angeles County (NHMLAC) celebrates the launch of Corinne Heyning Laverty’s new book, North America's Galapagos: The Historic Channel Islands Biological Survey. This recording is an introduction by author Corinne Heyning Laverty of her book, followed by a conversation with NHMLAC President, Dr. Lori Bettison-Varga.

Book Launch – North America's Galapagos

AN RX FOR THE SEVEN SEAS

BE ALIVE – BE OUTDOORS

RAINFORESTS – THEY'RE NOT JUST ABOUT THE TREES

This conversation brings to light the history of electricity in Los Angeles and the positive and negative impacts it has on all living things. It is an evening talk as part of the series Night in the City: L.A. After Dark. Coproduced by the Natural History Museums of Los Angeles County and the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West.

Night in the City: L.A. After Dark

About 15 million years ago, Los Angeles was at the bottom of the ocean. Climate change means land that’s been high and dry for millennia is getting inundated by water again. What do terms like “500-year flood” mean when we have one every ten years? And what can engineering do to make Southern California’s new floodplains survivable?

Shake it Off

H2-Uh-Oh

The amount of water on Earth hasn’t changed appreciably since Caesar and Cleopatra took a little cruise on the Nile. But the hydrologic cycle has changed where that water goes – and we are heading up a very dry creek. California has always teetered on the edge of drought, but hereafter, how we eat, drink, and even survive depends more than ever on the ingenuity of science and human willingness to suck it up by not sucking down so much water.

Higher and Drier

In the past, fires often renewed and even enriched California, like a mythical phoenix. But California feels only menaced and exhausted by them now. How have humans changed fire patterns? How will fire change our everyday lives, and what does standing up to fire’s “new abnormal” mean? Can science tell us where and how we fight, and when we just get out of fire’s way?

The Flames in Our Future

“That was then. This is now. History of PostNatural Selection”

There’s No Place That’s Home: Humans in Extreme-Climate Places

Bright Green, Big City: Urban Livability Amid Climate Crisis

Lions and Tigers and Bears, No More: Animals and the Current Biodiversity

Expand your world with talks about science, history, and culture held across the Natural History Family of Museums: the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, the La Brea Tar Pits Museum, and the William S. Hart Park and Museum.

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